Folkus - Art Ensemble Of Chicago* - Nice Guys

Nice Guys was the first Art Ensemble of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hiatus and the group's first for the ECM label. During those five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and continued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly on Nice Guys.

Broken up into Folkus - Art Ensemble Of Chicago* - Nice Guys pieces, two each from Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman and one each from Lester Bowie and Don Moyethe album reveals how the AEC managed to turn individual compositions into a fully realized, surprisingly accessible, avant garde group collective. Nice Guys maintains its edge while incorporating reggae, New Orleans marches, and a wide use Rade Šerbedžija - Ne Daj Se Ines space complemented by "little instruments" car horn, whistles, etc.

The strongest portion of the disc is the finale "Dreaming of the Master," dedicated to Miles Davis and sounding not unlike Davis ' mid-'60s quintet -- while maintaining the AEC Sextet - IRèNE - Nek. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

May 14, · Nice Guys reveals the many dimensions of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, from their crystalline delicacy, through their wry humor, to their unmitigated heaviness ("Dreaming of the Master"). It also reveals their core philosophy of creation, which combines their own eruptive originality and their homage to what they called "Great Black Music."5/5(6).
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One of the most original-sounding bands in jazz, The Art Ensemble of Chicago mixed the style with earlier African folk and ran it through the prism of an avant-garde mindset, tribal drumming, and guerilla theater. The music on this album ebbs and flows from piece to piece, whether it’s deconstructing bebop or vamping on reggae.
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Reception. The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4½ stars noting that "Nice Guys was the first Art Ensemble of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hiatus and the group's first for the ECM label. During those five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and continued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly Genre: Jazz.
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May 06, · Art Ensemble of Chicago, in despite of working with some characteristics of atonal music (typically European classical), use so many elements of African roots, principally because of their percussion, and sometimes they explore the style of the old brass bands and, consequently, of all New Orleans’ tradition/5(3).
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Nice Guys was the first Art Ensemble of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hiatus and the group's first for the ECM label. During those five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and continued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly on Nice Guys.9/
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